Sanctuary churches: Trump won’t ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resist

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and DEEPA BHARATH, of Associated Press, report on how faith communities are preparing to respond to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown…
US Catholic bishops say they will defend migrants if Trump violates rights

Baltimore, US RNS Gathering in Baltimore on Tuesday, just a week after former President Donald Trump won reelection, leaders of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops promised to defend immigrants and poor people in the coming years. “As the successors of the Apostles and vicars of Christ in our dioceses, we never backpedal or renounce […]
Catholic diocese sues US Government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave

United States AP For more than a year, religious organisations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New […]
Top US bishop worries Catholic border services for migrants might be imperiled by government action

Louisville, Kentucky, US AP Government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the US-Mexico border, says a top US bishop. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the issue this week while in Louisville, Kentucky, for a USCCB […]
Texas judge temporarily blocks attempt to shut down Annunciation House

United States RNS A state judge has temporarily blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to investigate and close Annunciation House, a volunteer-run network of Catholic migrant shelters based in El Paso. Paxton attempted to “run roughshod over Annunciation House, without regard to due process or fair play,” wrote state District Judge Francisco Dominguez in […]
US-Mexico border: Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the differing stances among US Christians on the issue of immigration…
In the US, Catholics rally around Annunciation House after lawsuit

United States RNS Catholics are rallying around Annunciation House, a network of Catholic migrant shelters based in El Paso, Texas, after the state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton, has attempted to shut down the non-profit. “Our church, our city and our country owe Annunciation House a deep debt of gratitude,” El Paso’s Catholic Bishop, Mark Seitz, […]
Migrant politics: DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls “reprehensible”

OLGA R RODRIGUEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT, of Associated Press, report…
“In the hands of God”: One Venezuelan family’s journey to the US; border crossings drop after Title 42 expiry

El Paso, Texas AP When Luis López was lost in Panama’s Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. “If I was bad, let me die here, but I came with my […]